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The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years: Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People. Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
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Popkewitz, Thomas S., Ed.; Pettersson, Daniel, Ed.; Hsiao, Kai-Jung, Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2020
The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Research
Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse
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Lee, Carol D., Ed.; White, Gregory, Ed.; Dong, Dian, Ed. – National Academy of Education, 2021
The aim of the "National Academy of Education (NAEd) Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse" report is to better prepare students to examine and discuss complex civic, political, and social issues by ensuring that the curricula, pedagogy, and learning environments that they experience are informed by the best available evidence and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Political Issues, Social Problems
Approaches to the Nature of Educational Sloyd and Craft. Sloyd Competence in Nordic Culture. Part III. Research in Sloyd Education and Crafts Science B:2.
Lindfors, Linnea, Ed.; Peltonen, Juhani, Ed.; Porko, Mia, Ed. – 1996
These nine articles deal with basic philosophical questions concerned with the general nature of sloyd or with the educational aspect of sloyd. (Sloyd, derived from a Swedish word, is an umbrella term for making or crafting things by hand.) They report research on cultural questions related to goals and contents, ranging from sociocultural…
Descriptors: Craft Workers, Creative Development, Creativity, Culture
Educational Resilience in Inner-City America. Challenges and Prospects.
Wang, Margaret C., Ed.; Gordon, Edmund W., Ed. – 1994
This collection attempts to broaden understanding of how to magnify circumstances known to enhance development and education in order to advance opportunities for all children, especially children and youth of the inner cities. Focuses are on raising consciousness about opportunities available to foster resilience and on synthesizing the knowledge…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Blacks, Context Effect, Educational Change
Learning and Instruction.
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De Corte, Erik, Ed. – Learning and Instruction, 1991
Five papers on research related to learning and instruction discuss the following: subjective competence and self-assessment; development of quantitative-relational abilities from childhood to adolescence; detecting functional relations in a computerized learning environment; developmental patterns and individual differences in word-search…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Competence, Computer Assisted Instruction
Radical Learning for Liberation. Maynooth Adult and Community Education Occasional Series Number 1.
Connolly, Brid, Ed.; Fleming, Ted, Ed.; McCormack, David, Ed.; Ryan, Anne, Ed. – 1996
The six articles in this first issue comprise a critical discourse about theories, practices, and research with the intent of realizing the potential of adult learning to bring about social change. "Adult Education and Empowerment for Individual and Community Development" (Jack Mezirow) outlines and updates the author's transformation…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Community Development, Democracy
To Be Young and Gifted.
Klein, Pnina S., Ed.; Tannenbaum, Abraham J., Ed. – 1992
This book reviews and summarizes recent research into the intellectual, emotional and creative development of young gifted children. An introductory section includes the following: "Early Signs of Giftedness: Research and Commentary" (Abraham Tannenbaum); "Creative Giftedness in Children" (Robert Sternberg and Todd Lubart); and "Cultural…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Creative Development